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So outrageously silly. This movie is so over the top with Nazi stereotypes, whores, and campy acting.
So much fun to watch.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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With the tide of WWII turning against Germany, the SS train prostitutes to determine if Wehrmacht generals remain loyal to the Fuhrer. Training exercises include fencing and what appears to be outdoor ballet. Bizarre and at times laughable.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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Bruno also directed the video nasty Hell of the Living Dead, so it's no surprise that he'd make a Nazi exploitation flick. There's nothing surprising here. It's soft-core porn centered around the death of Hitler. You'll get your plethora of nudity but nothing much else. The most interesting element about the film is that during the making, director Bruno fired a gun at the scriptwriter for REAL. The bullet grazed the writer's head. They sure don't make them like this anymore.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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"In Hell there are no angels .. there is only Schellenberg."
Hans Schellenberg (Gabriele Carrara) is an SS officer who, for his loyalty to the Third Reich, is rewarded with a mission by General Berger (Ivano Staccioli): To weed out traitors (in Nazi parlance, dissenters) from the top ranks, Schellenberg recruits 10 of the regime's most prized prostitutes to, after satisfying their sexual desires, coax confessions from the disillusioned men that represent a death sentence.
Schellenberg does indeed create Hell, a microcosm of the fanaticism and debauchery that marked the Nazi regime.
Many scenes of copulation and execution follow, shot with a gleeful eye by editor-cum-exploitation filmmaker Bruno Mattei. However, though Mattei focuses on brutality and baser sexuality for the majority of the film, he uses a lightness of touch that most mainstream treatments of the Nazis would lack; even Mel Brooks' "The Producers" looks a bit heavy-handed compared to "SS Girls."
This is a movie of extremes (to put it mildly): extreme ferocity, extreme hate, extreme zealotry, extreme perversion -- all things one could say were true of the Third Reich itself, as well as its "glorious" leader. Despair isn't the name of the whole game, though, as Mattei ends the film with self-reflection more brutal than most essays on the toll of war as well as a glimmer of hope.
The last fourth of the movie is occupied by the fallout from the suicide of a major character, who, after discovering the high of absolute power, quickly realizes the awful price that comes with it. As Hitler's death is broadcast over German radios and the Allies penetrate German defenses from all sides, the other characters begin confronting their own demons they created in their service to the Fatherland, discerning that only death is the proper punishment for their sins.
But all is not lost, as a broken captain arrives at the bordello to find one final prostitute alive -- the one with whom he fell in love before heading back to the front. The two are allowed to love even in the wake of death -- though Mattei reminds us that their lives will never be the same.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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My favorite Bruno Mattei film so far and one of the better nazi-exsploatation films. full of greta sleaze odd diagloue,the words best training montage and a scene were a woman is forced to fuck a german sheppard. Recommened to all exsploatation fans.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/09/23
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While not as widely known or appreciated as the similar film Tinto Brass' "Salon Kitty". Bruno Mattei's "SS Girls" serves it's purpose int the Sex-Ploitation sub-genre of films.
Bruno Mattei is a very underated and underappreciated, name in Cinema History. His films are very, very distinct and memorable, even if they are not always "Good". And SS Girls is one of those films. Set in WW2, a group of women are trained to be sex spies and find out who in Hitler's ranks are treacherous and who are loyal. The film is very out there visually, at times it's almost cartoonish portrayals of real life. Which thankfully takes away some of the harshness of the film's brutal subject. Although the film is not for everyone, if you know what Sex-ploitation films are and you enjoy them, you will most definatley enjoy Bruno Mattei's "SS Girls"
the end is my peronal favorite part as it is almost a violent, three stooges style ending,*spoilers ahead* in which Hitler is announced dead over the radio, as the Nazi's are having an orgy/party. Then out of nowhere it's like one Nazi decided that all of the fun was over, pulls out his luger and gives the walls some gray matter wallpaper, when the gun falls from his hand the rest of the Nazi's take turn using the Luger on themselves (how many bullets are in it, I do not know, I lost count).
So if you are a fan of these kinds of films, or if you liked "Salon Kitty" you should give this one a chance.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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